Tomatos awayyyyy

Incoming freshmen at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering competed Wednesday to see who could do the best job of wrapping a tomato in a package and dropping it from a balloon without causing significant damage. The competition was part of a team building exercise for the students. Each of the eight teams involved was given the same materials -- things like Styrofoam cups, toothpicks and cotton -- then given a short period to wrap them any way they saw fit. The contest resembled the competition in the TV program "Chopped." The contest was judge by Pradeep Khosla, UCSD's new chancellor, and Frieder Seible, dean of the engineering school.